Improvement in portable clothes-racks



G. F. R U CKWARDT. Portable Ulothas-Raok.

No. 197,979., Patented Dec. 11,1877.

ATTORNEYS.

N PETERS. PHOTD-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D10.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcn.

GOTLIEB-F. 'RI IOKWARDT, OF LITTLE FALLS, JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN PORT A BLE CLOTHES-RACKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,979, dated December 11, 1877 application filed March 12, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be "it known that I, GoTLrEB FRIEDRICH RiicKwARDT, of Little Falls, in the county of Passaic and State of- New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Portable Olothesltacks, of which the following is a specification Figure 1 is a side view of my improved clothes-rack, parts being broken away to show the construction. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same, parts being broken away to show the 7 construction.

The invention will be first described in connection with the drawing, and then pointed out in the claim.

A is the standard of the rack, which is made in the form of an. ornamental column, with a .semicircular flange, B, upon its upper part,

and a semicircular flange, 0, upon its lower part. D are the arms upon which the clothes are spread, the upper ends of which are placed in notches in the edge of the flange B, and have long staples or keepers E attached to their lower sides to receive the wire F, that is passed around or through holes or grooves formed .in the outer part of the flange B.

The long keepers or staples E enable the arms D to be extended, as shown in full lines in Fig. l and in Fig. 2, to receive the clothes,

or tiu'ned down into a vertical position when not required for use, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1.

band, H, pivoted at its ends to the standard A, and which may be turned down into notches formed in the upper edges of the said bars D. This prevents the bars D from being accidentally drawn out and dropped when hastily tak ing down the clothes or from other cause.

The arms D, when turned down, enter notches inthe edge of the flange C, to keep them in their places, and where they may be secured by a strap attached to the standard A or flange O.

In the rear side of the upper part of the standard A is formed a recess, which is covered with a metal plate, I, having a slot formed in it to receive the hook J. The base of the hook J is flanged, and has holes formed in it to secure it to the place where the rack is to be suspended. The hook J is made long, so as to fit into the slot in the plate I, and prevent the rack from swaying or turning upon it. When not in use for supporting the rack, the hook J may be used as and for an ordinary clothes-hook. should be put up in the different places where it may be desired to suspend the rack, so that they may be always ready for use.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent--- The combination of the pivoted semi-ring band H with the shoulder G of the standard A, and with the notched ends of the bars D, substantially as herein shown and described.

GOTLIEB FRIEDRICH RUOKWARDT.

Witnesses WM. N. BORTIO, J. O. VAN Nnss.

Several of the hooks J 

